The World Of The Alps - 1579 Words

South of the Alps, there is a peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The peninsula has been named Italy since about 1st century BC. About 700 BC a group of people of unknown origin named the Etruscans was dominant over the Indo-Europeans at this time. Around 500 BC, the Etruscans had gained control over much of Italy. By the 4th century, Rome is gaining power, while the Etruscans are steadily losing it. Jumping ahead to around the 12th century, we see that Florence comes into play. Florence is noted as the powerhouse of the Renaissance, since it produced outstanding pieces of Art and Literature. Jumping ahead to present day, Florence is home to the enormous cathedral, commonly referred to as The Duomo. Florence also has The†¦show more content†¦Since Florence is small, compared to Scottsdale, we walked almost everywhere we went. The museum that we visited had a lot about the Medici family and about Durante degli Alighieri. The largest bank in Europe in the 15th century was the Medici Bank. Dante was just a poet that knew some important people in the church. Dante Alighieri, who lived in Florence until he was exiled in 1302, was a poet, along with other political and community positions. Dante is known throughout the world for his three books that he wrote in exile. The books that Dante wrote are called the â€Å"Divine Comedy†. The set of three started out with the book named the Inferno or Hell. He continues his Comedy in Purgatorio or Purgatory and finishes the set with Paradisio or Paradise. The Inferno is the first book of the series and is also the most â€Å"vivid† and â€Å"modern† of the three. The Inferno is the easiest of the three books for people that have very little or no theological knowledge at all. One would guess from the name that Inferno is a book about hell, and it is a book about hell, just the hell that Dante went through while he was exiled from Florence. Dante did not actually go through hell, it was just something that he wrote in order to cope with being exiled from the place that he had begun to call his home. The middle book, or Purgatorio is the one that has the most poets